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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
James Hinshelwood
Grade equivalents
ADHD
GORT
2. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Comprehension
VAKT
Chall's Stage 3
IDEA
3. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Norm-referenced tests
Texas Education Code 38.003
Modification
Standard score
4. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Frank Smith
Adolf Kusmaul
Norm-referenced tests
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
5. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
MSLE
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Percentile/ percentile rank
6. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Quadrigraph
V >
Samuel T. Orton
Whole Language
7. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Affix
Reading Comprehension Support
Attention
8. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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9. Individual Educational Plan
Base Word
Synthetic Instruction
IEP
MSLE
10. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
ADHD
Texas Education Code 38.003
ALTA
Vowel Digraph
11. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Syllable
Criterion referenced tests
Reliability
Tactile
12. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Phonemic/ decodable words
Achievement test
13. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Consonant
Tactile
Diagnostic Teaching
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
14. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Cognitive Assessment
Cognition
Syllable
VAKT
15. Feeling through fingertips
Morpheme
Social language
Tactile
Joe Torgesen
16. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Anglo Saxon
Synthetic Instruction
Syllable
17. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Anglo Saxon
Linguistic Method
18. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Quadrigraph
Accuracy
Cognitive Assessment
Frank Smith
19. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Combination
Chall's Stage 1
Visual Processing
Samuel T. Orton
20. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Reliability
Pre-English
SBOE
Rate
21. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
V >
Social language
Diagnostic tests
Cognition
22. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Composite Score
Social language
RTI
Suffix
23. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Letter naming Chart
Raw score
Composite Score
Expressive language
24. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Cognition
Anna Gillingham
Standard score
Diagnostic tests
25. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Great Vowel Shift
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Suffix
Texas Education Code 38.003
26. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Visual Processing
Fluency
Impulsivity
Greek layer of language
27. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Frank Smith
NICHD
Kinesthetic
Standardized test
28. Closed syllable
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
VC
Multi-Sensory Approach
29. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Attention
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Chall's Stage 4
30. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Reading Comprehension Support
Attention
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Norm-Referenced Test
31. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Tilde
Vowel
Components of Reading Instruction
32. Multisensory Structured Language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
MSL
Academic Achievement Tests
Syntax
33. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Frank Smith
Texas Education Code 38.003
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Affix
34. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Academic Achievement Tests
Breve
Raw score
Percentile/ percentile rank
35. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Phonemic Awareness
Frank Smith
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
36. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Synthetic Instruction
Base Word
Vowel
Percentile/ percentile rank
37. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Consonant Digraph
Middle English
Fluency
Macron
38. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
Derived Score
Greek layer of language
Consonant Digraph
39. Final stable syllable
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40. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Linguistic Method
NICHD
Three Layers of Language
41. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Towre
Cedilla
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Multisensory
42. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Texas Education Code 38.003
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Morpheme
43. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Standard deviation
Anglo Saxon
Sight Words
Accuracy
44. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Linguistic Method
Orthography
Tilde
Progress Monitoring
45. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Composite Score
Visual Learners
Semantics
Visual Processing
46. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Whole Language
Accommodation
IMSLEC
Standard Scores
47. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Semantics
Adolf Kusmaul
Cedilla
Affix
48. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
RTI
Chall's Stage 0
VV
49. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Multi-Sensory Approach
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Morphology
50. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Modern English
Samuel T. Orton
Matthew Effect
Reliability